May 28, 2004


Enough for everyone to puke about

Hey, really we just invaded Iraq to...put some freedom on your families. No really. And if that doesn't work, then we'll lock your frickin' family of malcontents up. And Shit. No, Reeeealy.

U.S. troops wanted Jeanan Moayad's father. When they couldn't find him, they took her husband in his place.

Dhafir Ibrahim has been in U.S. custody for nearly four months. Moayad insists that he is being held as a bargaining chip, and military officials have told her that he will be released when her father surrenders. Her father is a scientist and former Baath party member who fled to Jordan soon after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime
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U.S. officials deny that there is a systematic practice of detaining relatives to pressure Iraqi fugitives into surrendering. "The coalition does not take hostages," said a senior military official who asked not to be named. "Relatives who might have information about wanted persons are sometimes detained for questioning, and then they are released. There is no policy of holding people as bargaining chips."

But Iraqi human rights groups say they have documented dozens of cases similar to Moayad's, in which family members who are not accused of any crimes have been detained for weeks or even months and told that they would be released only when a wanted relative surrenders to U.S. forces.
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The senior U.S. military official declined to discuss the detention of al-Douri's relatives, saying it is a "special case with very unusual circumstances." In the past, U.S. officials had likened the detentions to those of a material witness who is held for questioning.
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The tactic, Moayad said, reminded her of Hussein's regime. "The Americans promised us that they would bring democracy and freedom. They talked about the prisoners in Saddam's time, and we expected them to do something better," she said. "But now they're doing the same thing, or even worse."

They're all speeecial cases, aren't they? Just when you think that it's all gonna stop, they come up with another reason to commit another illegal act.

It's no wonder that the 1600 Crew went looking for lawyers like that putz at UC Berkeley to try and find loopholes in the Geneva Convention for them. Well, when regime change happens this year maybe handing a few of these Neocon asshats over to the International Criminal Courts might improve our image in the world, not to mention serving the cause of Justice ... you know that thing that the Patriot Act was put there to prevent...

Wolfie, Perle, Feith, Rummy and Preznit Shitcher-Drawz in the Criminal Dock at the Hague together after Viceroy Jerry rolls over on them. Well, a Fish can dream, right?

posted by Jo Fish on 05.28.04 at 12:13 AM





Comments:

"Yoo, who gave
The legal advice
To AG Ashcroft,
Must now pay the price."

I hope Berkeley gives him the Busby.

posted by: Shag from Brookline on 05.28.04 at 07:07 AM [permalink]



I have thought about this from 17 different directions, and anyway you look at it we are taking hostages, and have been since at least the invasion of Iraq. Dunno if this is a technique developed in Afghanistan or what, but didn't taking hostages used to be a bad thing?? Something evil-doers did??

posted by: The Baculum King on 05.28.04 at 07:14 PM [permalink]



Michael Moore's newest film shows that in the field soldiers use the hoods and deprevation tactics as well, it was from the top down...

posted by: Mr.Murder on 05.30.04 at 03:12 AM [permalink]



First one to charge- Alberto Gonzales, Bush counsel for white house to gitmo and his former AG for texas, member of Vincent and Elkins (The FIRM Grisham wrote about) LLP to Enron's account firm...

He's all over the map with Enron and insider trades and probably with the US citizen who detained in Canada prior to 9-11 with info to warn us...

Think Gonzales was a donor participant in the recount effort also...

posted by: Mr.Murder on 05.30.04 at 03:16 AM [permalink]






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